Drug-induced lupus is a disease, inducible by several drugs, that shares symptoms and laboratory characteristics with idiopathic lupus erythematosus. We report a case of carbamazepine-induced cutaneous lupus erythematosus which developed after 5 years of treatment in a patient who was on this medication because of an epileptic crisis after cranial trauma. Carbamazepine is a medication rarely implicated in drug-induced cutaneous lupus, moreover there are very few reports of such long periods between the start of therapy and the presentation of the clinical symptoms. We describe this case to emphasize the possibility of cutaneous lupus induction by carbamazepine even after many years of therapy.

Drug-induced cutaneous lupus erythematosus after 5 years of treatment with carbamazepine / P., Amerio; C., Innocente; Feliciani, Claudio; D., Angelucci; D., Gambi; A., Tulli. - In: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF DERMATOLOGY. - ISSN 1167-1122. - 16:(2006), pp. 281-283.

Drug-induced cutaneous lupus erythematosus after 5 years of treatment with carbamazepine.

FELICIANI, Claudio;
2006-01-01

Abstract

Drug-induced lupus is a disease, inducible by several drugs, that shares symptoms and laboratory characteristics with idiopathic lupus erythematosus. We report a case of carbamazepine-induced cutaneous lupus erythematosus which developed after 5 years of treatment in a patient who was on this medication because of an epileptic crisis after cranial trauma. Carbamazepine is a medication rarely implicated in drug-induced cutaneous lupus, moreover there are very few reports of such long periods between the start of therapy and the presentation of the clinical symptoms. We describe this case to emphasize the possibility of cutaneous lupus induction by carbamazepine even after many years of therapy.
2006
Drug-induced cutaneous lupus erythematosus after 5 years of treatment with carbamazepine / P., Amerio; C., Innocente; Feliciani, Claudio; D., Angelucci; D., Gambi; A., Tulli. - In: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF DERMATOLOGY. - ISSN 1167-1122. - 16:(2006), pp. 281-283.
File in questo prodotto:
Non ci sono file associati a questo prodotto.

I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.

Utilizza questo identificativo per citare o creare un link a questo documento: https://hdl.handle.net/11381/2687915
Citazioni
  • ???jsp.display-item.citation.pmc??? ND
  • Scopus 13
  • ???jsp.display-item.citation.isi??? 12
social impact